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...American Federation of Labor's American Federationist said in its issue of September 1935 that the Bedaux system "stripped of its pseudo-technical verbiage, is nothing more nor less than a method of forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest possible cost in wages." Next for Charles & Fern Bedaux a unique pleasure was in store-the abdicated King of England married Mrs. Simpson in their chateau in France (TIME, June 14). Later the honeymooning Duke and Duchess stayed at the Bedaux chateau in Hungary. And this week Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux landed in Manhattan charged...
...poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie the happy-go-lucky, and Marie (smallest) the sympathetic...
...Pawtucket, R. I, developed it into one of the richest racing establishments in the U. S. Robert Emmet Quinn is a fiery little Irishman of 43, a rough and tumble politician who crowned his career last year by getting elected Governor of Rhode Island. That the Union's smallest State is too small to hold two such little Irishmen was a fact which even the dullest Rhode Islander comprehended full well last week...
...Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels on Oct. 30 and to have the Belgian Government send out the invitations, not only to signatories of the Treaty but also...
...years ago has the Chicago grain market witnessed such a knockdown battle as took place last week. Though the nation's corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...